Headline of the day (in conjunction with the photo)! Nice contrast!
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Showing posts with label Global Warming Hoax Climate Change Religion. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Global Warming Hoax Climate Change Religion. Show all posts
Thursday, September 10, 2026
Democrats Mask Their Climate Agenda — For Now
Friday, September 04, 2026
National Academies of Sciences faces growing scrutiny as docs reveal deep climate-advocacy bias
No surprise! Too many scientists have subscribed to and are true believers of the climate change religion!
Better be a climate skeptic rather than a climate demagogue!
"A trove of thousands of documents include an email from Marcia McNutt, who was then-president of the National Academies of Sciences, asking to use funding to block the EPA from rescinding the endangerment finding, which she said was supported by “climate deniers.” ...
Now the organization is under pressure from the House Oversight Committee to provide documents it withheld as part of an ongoing investigation into allegations of bias, and 22 state attorneys general are calling for an investigation and possible suspension of its federal funding over allegations it's producing materials to help plaintiffs win climate lawsuits. ...
As [Rep. James Comer, R-Ky] was demanding the withheld documents last week, 22 state attorneys general sent a letter to Trump administration officials, also on Friday, calling for an investigation into NAS and possible suspension and debarment of federal funding stemming from the publication of an update to an influential science manual for judges, which included a chapter on climate science. ..."
Rep. James Comer, R-Ky (official photo, Source)
Wednesday, September 02, 2026
Nepal: Was it an unusual glacier collapse or frequently occuring massive bedrock failure/glacier collapse?
Recommendable, but again too lengthy an article as is typical for Climate Discussion Nexus!
I just blogged here about the potential culpability of China, because it did not warn or prevent this natural catastrophe.
How much of this catastrophe is due to manmade changes to the environment like construction, bulldozing of mountains etc.
Then there is the growth of population in Nepal from about 8 million to about 30 million since 1950. (Google Search)
"... it was all very predictable, yet they did not predict it, nor did they take even a fraction of the money given by the west to Nepal ... “woke green nonsense” and use it to install inexpensive sensors and sirens that could have given the unfortunate people downstream critical time to escape. ...
“Data shows that glacial failures – the scientific term for a category of events that includes ice avalanches, glacier detachments and rock-ice avalanches – have happened dozens of times since 1900 in the China-Nepal border region that was the site of this week’s devastation.” ..."
"Highlights
- Nepal flood, caused by a massive bedrock failure beneath a glacier, has been elucidated by recent satellite imagery
- Geomorphologists ... revealed that a significant portion of the mountainside bedrock collapsed
- This catastrophic event sent ice and boulders crashing into the valley, burying villages and causing the Trishuli River to surge
..."
New satellite images reveal surprise cause of Nepal floods: ‘Not just a glacier’ "The Nepal flood cause was a massive bedrock failure that took a glacier with it, according to new satellite imagery analysis"
Monday, August 31, 2026
Wind Energy bad Economics Explained in Under 4 Minutes
Very recommendable!
Wind power is a scam and highly subsidized and favored by some Western governments! Our ancestors not very long ago abandoned wind power for good reason!
Sunday, August 30, 2026
Merz im Waldbrandgebiet: „Ich will allen Leugnern sagen: Das ist der Klimawandel!“
Was für ein grüner Vollidiot! Noch so ein deutscher Klimawahnsinniger oder Klimademagoge!
Ich bin lieber ein Klimaleugner als ein Klimademagoge! 😊 Der Klimawandel beruht auf sehr viel Pseudowissenschaft, wie ich hier intensiv auf meinem Blog beschrieben habe.
"... Merz sagte, er wolle „allen Leugnern des Klimawandels sagen, schauen Sie sich das genau an, was hier passiert ist. Das ist der Klimawandel“. Man werde alles tun, um den Klimawandel zurückzudrängen, „aber wir müssen auch mit dem Klimawandel leben“, so der Kanzler. ..."
Bundeskanzler Friedrich Merz im Waldbrandgebiet
Thursday, August 27, 2026
How the sun's galactic journey shapes Earth's climate
Amazing stuff! How does the temporal dynamics of the heliosphere (shrinking/expanding) influence climate on Earth while our solar system travels through the Milky Way?
Notice the researchers limit the frequency of such disturbances to "every couple of million years", while I would propose it may happen more often.
If I am not mistaken, we still know very little about the trajectory of our solar system traversing the interstellar space within the Milky Way galaxy. For example, the researchers investigated only the extreme event when the heliosphere shrank so much that the Earth was no longer protected by heliosphere anymore.
Notice Merav Opher (the author of the paper below) has extensively written about the influence of the heliosphere on paleoclimate on Earth for several years (see e.g. her webpage on this subject).
I have been arguing here on blog for some years that the climate (e.g. long warming and cooling periods) on Earth may significantly be influenced by our solar system traveling or its trajectory through the Milky Way galaxy.
"... In new research ... trace the trajectory of the heliosphere, the massive bubble created by our sun that envelops our solar system, as it moved through our galaxy and influenced Earth's climate along the way. ...
Our heliosphere orbits around the center of our galaxy, the Milky Way. Throughout the sun's 4.6-billion-year existence, our heliosphere has traversed various regions within our galaxy. In a paper ..., researchers ... used computer modeling to reverse-engineer the path of the heliosphere through our galaxy, revealing that the environments it passed through may have triggered changes on Earth. ...
ran simulations that showed the sun has encountered frigid expanses of gas and dust at least three times in the past few million years. In these instances, massive interstellar "cold clouds" pushed against the heliosphere to such an extent that it shrank to smaller than Earth's orbit, stranding our planet outside the sun's protective shield.
These exposures—approximately 2–3 million years, 6–7 million years and 13–14 million years ago—would have exposed Earth's atmosphere to different surroundings. The simulation results match geologic evidence: Elements prevalent in interstellar dust appear in deep-sea sediment core samples, Antarctic snow and lunar samples from these periods.
These heliosphere collapse events may also explain ancient climatic patterns on Earth. In the simulations, when Earth's atmosphere was exposed to a cold, dense galactic hydrogen cloud, water vapor content increased and upper-atmospheric dynamics shifted, ultimately altering conditions at the surface. In summary, our heliosphere's trips through colder regions in our galaxy may be a key factor in driving some of Earth's ancient climate changes, including possible ice ages. ..."
From the abstract:
"This article reviews today's open issues, frontiers of research, and advances in our understanding of the heliosphere throughout the Sun's last 10 million years. Today's heliosphere, the cocoon formed by the solar wind as it moves through the Galaxy, engulfs all the planets extending in the nose direction to ∼120 astronomical units (AU).
- ▪ The Sun moves at 19 pc/Myr and has traversed many different structures in the interstellar medium that affect the heliosphere, at times collapsing it to sub-astronomical-unit scales. These periods of collapse introduce climate and radiation changes in Earth's environment.
- ▪ The frequency of such encounters could be as often as every couple of million years, making it a major external disturbance to the development of life on Earth.
- ▪ Stepwise shifts in past global climate, seen in deep-sea sediment cores, indicate intervals of more rapid cooling at 13–14 Mya, 6–7 Mya, and 2–3 Mya, for which the driving mechanisms are subject to ongoing debate. Such cooling events might be triggered by heliosphere collapse."
Understanding the Heliospheric Shield: Laying the Groundwork to Predict Habitable Astrospheres (open access)
Fig. 1 Schematic of the heliosphere. Several elements that form the heliosphere are noted (see also the definitions in the margins throughout this article). The width of the sector region is expected to vary with the solar cycle.
Figure 3
(a) The heliosphere of today is immersed in a warm ISM ...
(b) The heliosphere of the past after the Sun encountered dense cold clouds ... that compressed the heliosphere to sub-astronomical-unit scales
Abbreviation: AU, astronomical unit; ISM, interstellar medium.
Wednesday, August 26, 2026
Why is climate change ideology so powerful?
It is the perfect excuse/cover for many unwanted things! Global warming and climate change is to a shockingly large extent junk science!
It gives numerous governments of Western countries a perfect excuse/cover to impose socialist central planning on their economy and businesses and other restrictions on individual freedom! It guides their interventions in other countries in Africa, Latin America and elsewhere.
It gives a plethora of mediocre political, social and scientific researchers a perfect excuse/cover to do more junk science!
It gives many non profit organisations a perfect excuse/cover for their existence, activism and for more funding!
Monday, August 24, 2026
How large solar panel farms in China affect bird diversity, foraging and breeding behavior
Bad news! So much for so called (intermittent and unreliable) renewable energy!
Notice here again the AAAS use of awful climate change demagoguery! Or is the AAAS even admiring/promoting an authoritarian regime by the Communist Party of China?
Notice the study below also seems to confuse/conflate solar power farms and the replacement of diverse natural landscapes with dense homogeneous vegetation.
So solar panel farms do not only spoil nature!
We have known for a long time that wind turbine farms are mass killers of birds, bats, and insects! Plus, besides spoiling nature, they cause noise pollution!
"... In China, strong governmental policy has led to solar panels covering thousands of square kilometers.
Since birds are highly responsive to transformations in habitat and vegetation that can impact their breeding and migratory sites, assessing corresponding changes in bird diversity can serve as an indicator of wider ecological disturbance.
Researchers analyzed the overlap between pro-solar governmental policies and bird observations, as well as changes in land use, vegetation, and agricultural productivity, from 2014 to 2023 in 2344 Chinese counties. They found that stronger solar policies correlated with a reduction in bird biodiversity, especially in wealthy and nondesert regions. ..."
"... Just as climate policy requires credible estimates of climate damages [???] to inform the social cost of carbon, credible estimates of biodiversity values are needed when sustainable development policies alter ecosystems."
"Editor’s summary
The world needs to develop clean, renewable energy [???]. However, given the enormous human population and our energy needs, clean energy also will have a large footprint on nature.
Solar energy represents one of the cleanest forms [???] of renewables, but solar farms can greatly alter the environment.
Zhang et al. looked at the effects of solar power–promoting policies on bird diversity across over 2000 counties in China ... They found that counties with the most pro-photovoltaic policies had reductions in bird diversity, primarily due to land conversion. They argue that solar developments must be proactive about countering such losses, especially focusing siting efforts in regions such as deserts [???], where vegetation alteration can be minimized. ...
Abstract
Could the global transition to renewable energy create a green dilemma that pits carbon reduction against biodiversity conservation?
This study examined the effect of policies promoting solar photovoltaics on local avian biodiversity using a panel dataset covering 2344 counties in China from 2014 to 2023. Policies that favored photovoltaic expansion led to reductions in bird diversity, disproportionately affecting wealthier and nondesert regions, as well as widespread species.
The mechanism operated primarily through land conversion: Cropland and grassland were transformed into developed areas, reducing the diversity of vegetation.
Paradoxically, the leaf area index increased, a pattern we term “inferior greening,” whereby diverse natural landscapes were replaced by dense but ecologically homogeneous vegetation.
We argue that future photovoltaic development should be accompanied by strict biodiversity safeguards, especially in economically developed regions with high habitat complexity."
From the paper:
"The global imperative [???] to mitigate climate change has catalyzed an unprecedented expansion of renewable energy, with solar photovoltaics at the forefront. This transition, essential for decarbonization [???], can entail a profound transformation of land use, creating a potential conflict with biodiversity conservation. Nowhere is this dynamic more pronounced than in China, where the carbon neutrality strategy [???] is driving a massive expansion of solar capacity projected to constitute nearly 45% of its energy mix by 2060. ...
The large-scale deployment of solar arrays driven by these policies often results in severe habitat fragmentation and the loss of essential foraging and breeding grounds, threatening avian populations regardless of flock size. ..."
Beyond carbon in renewable energy policy (perspective, open access) "China’s policy-driven solar expansion shows why climate policy appraisal should look at biodiversity impacts"
China’s solar expansion policy reduces bird diversity (open access)
Many counties in China supporting solar energy development had reductions in bird diversity, potentially reflecting the ecological consequences of land conversion. [Does this not look really awful!]
Fig. 1. The spatial distribution of solar energy expansion and bird diversity across China.
The figure presents county-level choropleth maps illustrating the geographic patterns of key variables. White areas indicate missing data.
(A) Photovoltaic policy stringency index (PSI), measured as the weighted sum of policy documents at provincial, municipal, and county levels.
(B) The total area of centralized photovoltaic power stations within each county.
(C) Bird diversity (ShannonBD), calculated as the negative sum of the proportion of each bird species multiplied by its natural logarithm. Nanhai Zhudao, South China Sea Islands.
Saturday, August 22, 2026
The Wolf Solar Grand Minimum roughly between 1270 and 1350 CE and of other grand solar minimums and grand solar cycles
Here is another reason why the global warming is a hoax and why climate change is a religion!
Anthropocene greenhouse gases is an obscene explanation! What has probably more influence on climate on Earth when comparing trace gases and varying solar activity? Varying solar activity!
Let's not forget that the world population also increased tremendously over the past several centuries from about 1 billion around 1800 AD/CE to now about 9 billion (aka as the Population Bomb since 1968). Of course, so many humans and their activities largely concentrated in urban areas contribute to warming (e.g. urban heat island effect). However, world population growth might be at an inflection point.
Much more likely are variations in solar activity and solar cycles over short and long term periods that cause warming and cooling periods on Earth than trace gases in the atmosphere! We know for a long time about the 11 year solar activity cycle, but most likely there are other, yet to be discovered cycles like the grand solar cycle.
Grand solar minimums is the missing link I was looking for to possibly explain changes of extended warming to cooling climate periods.
Thanks to the incessant daily climate change demagoguery, the effect of solar activity on Earth climate is heavily suppressed, avoided and omitted!
"The Wolf Solar Minimum is a grand solar minimum—a prolonged period of sharply reduced sunspot activity and magnetic output on the Sun—that lasted roughly from 1270 to 1350." (Google Search)
This Wolf Solar Minimum roughly coincides with the end of the Medieval Warm Period from about 950 AD/CE to 1250 AD/CE (not medieval climate anomaly) or it falls between the MWP and the Little Ice Age from about 1400 AD/CE to 1850 AD/CE. Or in other words, we are currently in another, modern warm period!
"Major historical grand solar minima identified in solar physics include the following:
Homeric minimum: ~750 BC – 400 BC
Oort minimum: 1040 – 1080
Wolf minimum: 1280 – 1350
Spörer Minimum: 1450 – 1550
Maunder Minimum: 1645 – 1715
Dalton Minimum: 1790 – 1820
Modern Minimum: 2020 – 2053" (Google Search)
From the abstract (1):
"In this editorial I will demonstrate with newly discovered solar activity proxy-magnetic field that the Sun has entered into the modern Grand Solar Minimum (2020–2053) that will lead to a significant reduction of solar magnetic field and activity like during Maunder minimum leading to noticeable reduction of terrestrial temperature. ..."
From the abstract (2):
"Recent progress in undersatanding a role of the solar background magnetic field in defining solar activity is presented using eigen vectors derived with Principle Compnent Analysis.
This approach revealed a presence of not only 11 year solar cycles but also of grand solar cycles with duration of 330-380 years.
We demonstrated that these grand cycles are formed by the interferences of two magnetic waves produced by solar dynamo with dipole magnetic field in two layers of the solar interior with close but not equal frequencies.
These grand cycles are always separated by grand solar minima (GSMs) similar to Maunder minimum type, with the modern GSM started in 2020 and to last until 2053.
This GSM leads to a reduction of solar irradiance by about 0.22% from the modern level and a decrease of the average terrestrial temperature by about 1.0C in the cycle 26.
The reduction of a terrestrial temperature can have important implications for different parts of the planet on growing vegetation, agriculture, food supplies and heating needs in both Northern and Southern hemispheres."
Modern Grand Solar Minimum will lead to terrestrial cooling (1, open access)
Modern grand solar minimum and its impact on the terrestrial environment (2, open access?)
Figure 3. Solar activity (summary) curve restored for 1200–3300 AD
Figure 4.
Top plot: restored total solar irradiance from 1600 until 2014 [Notice the dip around 1812 AD. This when Napoleon tried and failed to conquer Moscow due to an extremely cold winter.]
Bottom plot: Central England temperatures (CET) recorded continuously since 1658. Blue areas are reoccurring cool periods; red areas are warm periods. All times of solar minima were coincident with cool periods in central England.
Thursday, August 20, 2026
University of Houston cuts over 40% of core curriculum, including climate change and LGBT studies courses
Good news! Good riddance! Maybe these cuts go too far, but perhaps the indoctrination with these subjects also went on too far and for far too long!
Hopefully, other US universities will follow!
"... The UH System Board of Regents unanimously approved the core changes Thursday and certified that they complied with a 2025 state law that strengthened the power of governor-appointed regents and diminished faculty influence on campus. ..."
Medieval Europe was battered with 16 catastrophic floods in just 2 years (hint: post Medieval Warm Period)
Before the so called "anthropocene" caused current global warming there was the Medieval Warm Period (from about 950-1250 AD/CE) at a considerably lower world population!
Anthropocene is obscene in the context of global warming and climate change (unless you mean that 9 billion humans at body temperature of 36 degrees Celsius and their activities warm up the Earth, but not the atmospheric trace gas CO2)!
Notice that the researchers of the Technische Universitaet Wien also mention low solar activity in the 1330-1340s! What if the sun and it's solar activity and cycles is the major cause for warm periods on Earth?
Very strange, this research does not seem to discuss the relation between these catastrophic floods and the Medieval Warm Period. A very curious omission!
Apparently, we still know little about catastrophic weather or climate events in the past due to lack of records, research activity etc. Thus, the common hysteria and alarmism about current adverse weather events is more like medieval superstition and propaganda!
"In the town of Göttingen, Germany, sits a small parish of stone and red brick. Inscribed on a cross within, a son mourns the loss of his father, Hermann, who drowned in a flood in 1342. Known as the Magdalene flood, the deadly deluge was one of the greatest natural disasters to hit Europe in the past 1000 years.
Despite the devastation, historical records of the flood are scarce. The inscription on the Göttingen cross is the only known text to name a victim. Now, after years of scrubbing archives, researchers are painting a much more complete, and even more devastating, picture of catastrophic weather from this era. In a study published this month in Nature, scientists report evidence of about 16 cascading floods that wreaked havoc across Europe between late 1341 and 1343—the largest number of back-to-back flooding events documented in the past 700 years. ..."
"... Thousands dead, multiannual crop failures
More than a thousand entries from contemporary sources were analyzed to study the impact of the floods of this period. ... The historical records present a dramatic picture: “Many thousands of people died in the floods, from hunger and disease,” ...
Possible Causes of the Unusual Cluster
1342 was the year with the highest number of extreme flood events in the last 700 years, and 1343 is a close third. This cluster was no coincidence: The team found several possible factors that could have contributed to this extraordinary series of floods. Around 1340 and 1341, an unusually high number of volcanic eruptions occurred, including the Hekla eruption in Iceland. Sulfur-containing aerosols in the atmosphere can lead to cooling and alter large-scale circulation patterns.
At the same time, Arctic sea ice had already declined significantly since the mid-1330s, while solar activity in the 1330s-1340s was still relatively low. “The interplay of these factors could have contributed to intense low-pressure systems, prolonged rainfall, and thus the unusual series of floods.” ..." or "combined with reduced incoming solar radiation tends to lead to Northern Hemisphere near-surface air cooling". Which is it? Reduced and varying solar activity itself or reduced incoming solar radiation to blockage in the Earth's atmosphere due e.g. volcanic activity?
From the abstract:
"Europe has experienced extreme floods in recent decades. However, even larger floods are possible and must be considered in flood risk management. Their characteristics can be clarified by analysing the largest documented historical floods.
In Central Europe, the Magdalena Flood of July 1342 is usually considered the largest of the last millennium; however, knowledge of its characteristics is incomplete.
Here we show that 16 major flood events occurred across much of Europe between late 1341 and 1343. Four of these events had return periods of 500–1,000 years (the Magdalena, Bartholomew, Candlemas and Jacob Floods). Although Magdalena was thought previously to be the only extreme European flood in 1342, our new documentary dataset suggests that it formed part of a broader sequence.
The year with the greatest number of extreme floods during the past 700 years was 1342, and 1343 ranks among the top ten. This highly unusual sequence of floods had substantial socio-economic impacts, including a paradigm shift in flood mitigation measures in Europe.
A series of volcanic eruptions along with multi-annual Arctic sea ice retreat is a plausible cause of this flood sequence.
Clusters of extreme floods occurring within a few months are rarely considered in risk management. Quick and proactive risk strategies are needed that account for this eventuality."
The Flood of the Millennium That Wasn't a Single Flood (original news release) "Surprising Findings from Historical Data: the famous flood of 1342 was not an isolated event, but a series of events – providing insights for climate research and risk assessment."
Old picture of a flooding (Luzern, from e-codices)
A Late Medieval Latin chronicle entry about the series of floods of 1342–43
Fig. 2: Spatiotemporal distribution of floods and weather information in 1342 and 1343.
Fig. 3: Socio-economic impacts of floods in 1342 and 1343.
Fig. 4: Annual frequency of great and extraordinary floods in Europe in the last 700 years. [Notice the peculiar jump around 1850 that is at the end of the Little Ice Age.]
Wednesday, August 19, 2026
56 million years ago fossil forest during the PETM offers chilling window into climate change future. Really!
This demagoguery and alarmism and hysteria was again spread quickly by many of the usual climate change religion suspects (like e.g. the AAAS)!
When medieval superstition trumps science!
Some of this research seems to be speculative, e.g. "possible tree mortality" and other vague terms.
The climate demagogues try hard to link a 56 million years ago event to today's warming by stressing the "anthropogenic" cause of higher CO2 in the atmosphere. Let's not forget CO2 is only a minute trace gas in our time!
Notice also this study appears to be based on computer modeling not on hard facts. Has any third party validated these computer model scenarios? Computer models and their 100 year forecasts also play a major role in the propaganda of the global warming hoax/climate change religion.
Very strange, notice these climate demagogues don't tell what the approximate CO2 and methane concentration in the atmosphere was 56 million years ago. Either they don't know or it was so much higher than today that they better not disclose it or otherwise their demagoguery would be exposed immediately! What if it was not higher CO2 that caused the warming period 56 million years ago?
"Palaeontologists have reconstructed a 56-million-year-old forest, offering a sobering view of what happens in a period of rapid warming due to rapid increase in atmospheric carbon dioxide.
The Palaeocene-Eocene Thermal Maximum (PETM) came at the end of the Palaeocene epoch. Over this period, global average temperatures rose by 5–8°C over just a few thousand years.
This warming was triggered by a massive, rapid release of carbon dioxide and methane into the atmosphere and oceans primarily through volcanic activity which would have been intensified through feedback loops, including melting permafrost and large-scale wildfires.
Research published in the journal Science shows how the PETM impacted on an ancient forest fossilised in rocks in US state Wyoming and vegetation globally.
The team found reduced canopy cover and plant species migrating toward the poles. ..."
"“We are putting CO₂ into the atmosphere faster than any known natural process,” [???] says paleobotanist Dr. Regan Dunn, Assistant Deputy Director and Associate Curator of the Samuel Oschin Global Center for Ice Age Research at La Brea Tar Pits and the Natural History Museum of Los Angeles County. “The Earth has never experienced a carbon release at the pace we're creating today." ..."
"... This sudden warming event, called the Paleocene–Eocene Thermal Maximum (PETM), was one of the most notable climatic upheavals in Earth’s history. The volume of CO2 released [??? so how much was released?] during that period is thought [???] to be roughly equivalent to the total human emissions that would [???] be released by the end of the twenty-first century under a pessimistic scenario. The ancient surge of CO2 raised global average temperatures by between 5 and 9 °C, changing the climate for more than 150,000 years. ..."
"... Understanding how forest structure changed during the PETM is really important, because it tells us about how plant growth, biomass and productivity are affected by adding a lot of carbon dioxide [??? how much?] to the atmosphere,” Currano [Ellen Currano, senior author of the study] says. “It turns out that too much carbon dioxide is a bad thing for forests, because the accompanying warming and drying stresses the trees and kills many of them.” ..."
From the editor's summary and abstract (Notice, the abstract does not mention the CO2 concentration in the atmosphere):
"Editor’s summary
Predicting the effects of climate change depends on complex feedbacks between climate and vegetation. Although elevated carbon dioxide from anthropogenic emissions could make photosynthesis more efficient, leading to greater vegetation productivity and carbon storage, coincident warming and drought can reduce primary productivity. Dunn et al. examined how these factors interacted to influence forest productivity in another period with elevated carbon dioxide and 5° to 9°C of global warming, the Paleocene-Eocene Thermal Maximum, which occurred about 56 million years ago. Based on an analysis of leaf cuticles from fossils, the researchers found that there was elevated canopy opening early in this period, possibly due to tree mortality, which occurred along with major vegetation and hydrological changes. ...
Abstract
Uncertainty remains regarding the impact of rapid anthropogenic [???] warming on forest ecosystem structure, biodiversity, and function.
As an analog [???], we reconstruct forest canopy density and compositional change in Wyoming, USA, through the Paleocene-Eocene Thermal Maximum (PETM), an interval of abrupt carbon increase and warming ~56 million years ago. We develop a proxy to quantify leaf area index and assess shifts in floral composition using palynomorphs.
Forest canopies opened abruptly at onset of PETM warming, landscape erosion increased, and vegetation shifted from broad-leaved angiosperm to fern- and palm-dominated ecosystems.
When combined with regional data, these patterns suggest that continental-scale changes in plant communities cause landscape destabilization. These shifts also have implications for multimillennial-scale hydrologic and carbon cycle feedbacks in the climate system."
Ancient global warming drove forest canopy decline and ecosystem restructuring "A widespread dieback of forests due to climate change 56 million years ago has parallels with today [???]."
Ancient rise in CO2 was catastrophic for forests: what that means for today’s plants
Paleocene Eocene Thermal Maximum Carbon Release Study "A Tar Pits researcher reconstructed forests of 56 million years ago—with chilling parallels for our warming planet: climate change led to a widespread browning of Earth's landscapes—against a backdrop of elevated atmospheric CO₂, global warming, and reduced rainfall triggered by volcanically driven carbon release—and trees are at the root of these drastic changes."
UW’s [University of Wyoming] Currano Helps Reconstruct Ancient Wyoming Forest Canopy (original news release)
(Left) Fisheye view of a forest canopy above a corresponding estimate of forest structure. (Top Right) Leaf cuticle collected from modern forest soil. (Bottom Right), Fossilised leaf cuticle from the Hanna Basin.
Satellite data shows a browning trend across the planet since around the turn of the century. [Demagogues like to use shocking photos like this]
Tuesday, August 18, 2026
Older People Face Higher Risks From a Warming World. Really!
How serious is this issue? How much is alarmism and hysteria? How easy is it to protect older individuals from heat exposure (e.g. staying more indoors etc.)?
A strong hint that this is more alarmism and hysteria than science is the use of junk climate model projections in this study to come up with "intolerable heat".
Notice here the switch again from "climate change" to global warming. Whenever it is convenient for propaganda?
Notice here also they provide only a relative temperature range and not an absolute temperature range when older individuals may suffer more! This may indicate e.g. that perhaps many older individuals are not that much affected by warmer outdoor temperatures.
The methodology may also be seriously flawed as they compare Little Ice Age temperatures with current warming period temperatures instead of e.g. Medieval Warming period temperatures! Plus they seem to have used junk climate model projections.
"Older people may face serious health risks from heat at much lower temperatures than previously understood, per new research from Stanford University.
Most previous studies applied heat limits for healthy young adults to all age groups—overlooking the vulnerability of older people.
The new research ... found that people ages 60 and up could “no longer maintain a stable core temperature”—the point at which the body’s biological cooling mechanisms become overwhelmed––at temps roughly 4.7–7.5 degrees Celsius and (40.46–45.5 degrees Fahrenheit) lower than young adults.
After accounting for ways that aging reduces heat tolerance, the number of people facing repeated, “uncompensable” heat exposure—a combination of heat and physical factors—as climates warm is two-to-eight-times higher than earlier studies estimated using young-adult thresholds for all ages.
Suggested solutions: Researchers say there is a need for targeted, age-specific action plans and warning systems to protect older people, ..."
"In short:
A new global study suggests older people may face serious health risks from heat at much lower temperatures than previously understood.
The study found the temperature at which people age 60 and older could "no longer maintain a stable core temperature" was roughly 4.7–7.5 degrees Celsius lower than for young adults. ..."
From the abstract:
"Background
In a warming world, understanding where, when, and to what extent human heat tolerance limits will be breached has become increasingly important.
Previous projections applied heat limits for healthy young adults to all age groups, overlooking greater vulnerability in older ages.
With global ageing, this oversight could seriously underestimate future heat risks. In this study, we aimed to examine the extent to which accounting for age-specific heat tolerance alters global projections of heat limit exceedances.
Methods
We integrated experimentally derived heat limits for young (18–39 years), middle-aged (40–59 years), and older adults (≥60 years) with climate projections [???] and age-stratified population projections to assess where and to what extent these limits could be breached across age groups under 1–4°C of global warming above preindustrial levels.
The climate projections [???] include bias-corrected projections of dry-bulb temperature and wet-bulb temperature from 14 Coupled Model Intercomparison Project Phase 6 climate models under the shared socioeconomic pathway 5-8·5 scenario. We also highlighted countries with high exposure risk and low adaptive capacity.
Findings
More widespread and imminent breaches of heat limits were estimated among older adult populations than among other populations.
Older adults faced more frequent and spatially extensive exceedances under the 1·5°C global warming scenario [???] relative to the preindustrial period than young adults did under 4°C. Using age-specific thresholds more than doubled the global population having 180 h or more of exceedance annually as compared with previous estimates.
Older adults in south Asia and the Persian Gulf could face sustained, day-and-night exposure for three consecutive months at 3°C or more warming.
We also identified 13 countries under 3°C global warming above the preindustrial period where poverty rates exceed 50% and either at least 10 million older adults or at least 80% of the older adult population experiences 180 h or more of heat limit exceedance annually.
India, Pakistan, Bangladesh, Myanmar, and Niger exceed both the absolute (10 million older adults) and proportional (80% of older adults) exposure thresholds.
Interpretation
Our results suggest accounting for age stratified vulnerability, intolerable heat [???] will be experienced at much larger scales and for longer durations, affecting far more people than previously estimated.
By identifying who and where people are exposed, our findings can inform targeted heat action plans and guide resource allocation and response planning. ..."
People over 60 face heat exposure danger at lower temperatures, study suggests
When Heat Outpaces the Human Body: A Warming, Aging World at Risk "As the climate warms, understanding where, when, and to what extent human heat tolerance limits will be breached has become increasingly important—particularly for the elderly."
Figure 1 Spatial distribution of UHS [uncompensable heat stress] frequency across age groups and warming levels
Monday, August 17, 2026
Germany’s Auto Giant VW and the US Ford are Losing the Race to please government climate dictates
Recommendable!
Big government and many of the elites promote and exploit the global warming hoax and climate change religion as a pretext for more socialism!
Why the US never repealed the socialist Corporate Average Fuel Economy (CAFE) standards (enacted in 1975) is beyond belief! President Trump are you listening!
"... In late 2025, EU leadership announced sweeping directives for reaching all-time emissions lows. One of those requirements in the passenger vehicle market requires EU-based automakers “to comply with a 90 percent tailpipe emissions reduction target, while the remaining 10 percent emissions will need to be compensated through the use of low-carbon steel Made in the Union, or from e-fuels and biofuels.” ...
This is a classic case of government-induced malinvestment into certain lines of production. Based on the EU regulators’ decrees for a 2035 ban on the manufacturing and sale of internal combustion engines ...
Ford is now in a better position than VW in this respect, as the Trump administration has scaled back the Biden team’s more stringent Corporate Average Fuel Economy (CAFE) requirements. But there’s still plenty to be undone. The current administration’s estimates indicate that there would be $109 billion in savings to American carmakers by loosening emissions rules. Nevertheless, the rules still require that all US-made passenger vehicles make 34.1 mpg by 2031. That’s a significant reduction from the previous administration’s demands for mpg to reach over 50 mpg. Yet, consumers’ tastes for maximizing fuel efficiency have hit a wall. ..."
This chart does not even show the big Chinese competitors
Sunday, August 16, 2026
Trump EPA wrongly canceled $20B in climate funds, appeals court rules
Good news! Maybe next year the federal funding of global warming/climate change propaganda/demagoguery with taxpayers money will finally stop!
"The Trump administration did not have the authority to terminate and claw back funding that had already been disbursed to climate nonprofits, an appeals court ruled on Tuesday.
Eight nonprofit groups have been seeking to regain access to billions of dollars that had been deposited in their bank accounts after EPA Administrator Lee Zeldin, along with the FBI and the Treasury Department, ordered Citibank to freeze their accounts in February 2025.
The decision gives the groups access to their funding while the EPA decides whether to appeal to the U.S. Supreme Court.
However, many of the organizations have had to enact significant cuts while their accounts were frozen.
The judgment upholds an injunction preventing the EPA from taking back money that had already been disbursed to the nonprofits’ bank accounts. Six of 10 judges on the U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia Circuit supported lifting the injunction. ..."
New Evidence Reveals Antarctica Was Warm & Green some 90-100 million years ago
Global Warming (aka climate change) is nothing new! How often were there actually significan warm periods on Earth over the last let's say 100 million years?
Like Greenland when the Vikings arrived around 982 AD/CE.
Apparently, 100 million years ago Antarctica was located over the South Pole as it is today. Or in other words, it appears the geographic location of Antarctica did not change and could explain the warming period.
Saturday, August 15, 2026
When should you switch to an EV? Right now! Really!
More horrible climate demagoguery coming from the AAAS! This is written by a senior editor of Science!
Reminder: So called greenhouse gases (a propaganda term) gases are trace gases!
What is perhaps the most significant cause of climate change/global warming: Varying solar activity and cycles!
"Over the last 3,000 years, Earth experienced two major notable ... warm periods—the Roman Warm Period (roughly 1st to 3rd centuries AD) and the Medieval Warm Period (roughly 950 to 1250 AD)" (Google Search)
This research is most likely ideologically driven junk science! It was written to give some politicians pseudo science arguments for government subsidies and government paternalism!
This pamphlet of a journal article was written by only two authors!
"When should you switch to an EV? Right now!
H. Jesse Smith, Senior Editor, Science
Campbell, J. E. & Geyer, R. The climate benefits of retiring a fully operational internal combustion engine vehicle. Science 393, 591–595 (2026). 10.1126.science.adv5441
Internal combustion engine vehicles are a major source of carbon dioxide emissions and therefore there has been a strong push to increase the proportion of electric vehicles (EV) in the transportation sector.
Operating an EV [???] typically produces much less CO2 per-mile than driving a “gas-guzzler,” but knowing when to replace a combustion vehicle with an EV in order to minimize lifetime CO2 production is complicated by the fact that considerable emissions are produced in the manufacturing of a vehicle, before it ever hits the road.
An accurate assessment also must consider emissions from the activities that support manufacturing, such as mining for component materials, and end-of-life management requirements like disposal or recycling.
In order to answer the “When is the best time to switch?” question, at least from the greenhouse gas perspective [???], Campbell and Geyer employed a wide range of scenarios. Ultimately, they found that retiring even a brand-new combustion-driven car for an EV can result in lower total CO2 emissions. [???] ..."
From the editor's summary and abstract:
"Editor’s summary
Electric vehicles (EVs) produce much lower emissions of greenhouse gases than internal combustion engine vehicles (ICEVs), but when in the life cycle of an ICEV does it make sense to replace it with an EV? Campbell and Geyer conducted life-cycle analyses of different vehicle types and concluded that the energy impact benefits from swapping an EV for an ICEV begin to accrue as early as the first day of the life of the ICEV [???], and that replacement early in the life cycle consistently provides reductions in greenhouse gas emissions. Financial considerations will also affect when people choose to make the replacement, of course, but from the perspective of emissions, it is almost never too soon to switch. ...
Abstract
Internal combustion engine (ICE) vehicles represent the single largest source of carbon dioxide emissions for most US households. Although battery electric vehicles (BEVs) considerably reduce use-phase emissions, the transition poses a fundamental life cycle optimization challenge:
Is there a net climate benefit to retiring a functional ICE vehicle before its end of life? Retiring a functioning ICE vehicle incurs a fundamental trade-off between BEV manufacturing emissions and decreased vehicle operation emissions.
In this study, we evaluated this trade-off across a comprehensive range of retirement scenarios and found that scrappage-and-replacement yields consistent emissions reductions across most contexts, including the retirement of new ICE vehicles. Although scrapping a functional asset remains economically prohibitive under current market conditions, these results demonstrate a major mitigation potential for policy interventions [???], such as enhanced scrappage subsidies, to address the emissions of an increasingly durable ICE fleet."
Friday, August 14, 2026
Teureres heizen mit klimafreundlichen Gasen in der Bananenrepublik Deutschland
Neues aus der Bananenrepublik D! Die Mauer fiel und der Sozialismus breitete sich in ganz Deutschland aus!
Dem Klimawahn ist kein Opfer zu schade! Am deutschen Unwesen wird die Welt nicht genesen!
Z.B. die Chinesischen Kommunisten lachen sich kaputt über die dämlichen Deutschen während in China weiter hunderte von Kohlekraftwerken gebaut werden.
"... Allerdings muss spätestens 2045 auch der Gebäudebestand in Deutschland klimaneutral sein. Deshalb regelt das neue Gebäudemodernisierungsgesetz, wann und in welchem Umfang klimafreundliche Brennstoffe in neuen fossilen Heizungen eingesetzt werden müssen:
Bis zum Jahr 2028 können alle Brennstoffe verwendet werden,
ab 2029 müssen mindestens 10 Prozent,
ab 2030 mindestens 15 Prozent,
ab 2035 mindestens 30 Prozent und
ab 2040 mindestens 60 Prozent klimaneutrale Brennstoffe verwendet werden, ...
ab 2045 die Komplettumstellung auf Stoffe wie Biomethan, Bioheizöl, biogenes Flüssiggas oder nachhaltig erzeugten Wasserstoff erfolgen muss. ..."
Thursday, August 13, 2026
The permafrost link between methane emissions and climate change. Really!
More of the horrible climate demagoguery and indoctrination by the AAAS! Again junk science and junk journalism?
Remember CO2 and methane are trace gases in the atmosphere measured in few hundred (CO2) or even few (methane) parts per million!
I bet there also arsonists in Siberia! Or is Putin the Terrible doing some deforestation in Siberia so the megalomaniac can finally conquer the rest of the world? 😊
"Northern hemispheric permafrost stores twice as much carbon as is found in the atmosphere. As permafrost thaws due to climate warming, it becomes a potential source of methane emissions caused by microbial decomposition of soil organic carbon in wetlands, which could cause further warming. Zhu et al. report that methane emissions in Siberia have increased at a rate of around 5% per year since 2010 due to a combination of fires and permafrost melting. This source of methane is projected to become more important as climate continues to warm."
From abstract:
"The northern permafrost region, which stores double the amount of carbon in the atmosphere, is vulnerable to accelerated warming.
Methane emissions from thawing permafrost may eventually result in a climate-carbon feedback.
Our analysis of atmospheric methane data shows that Siberian growing-season methane emissions have increased by 12.0 ± 1.9 teragrams of methane (TgCH4) (5% per year) over the period 2010–2023.
We reveal contrasting Siberian hydrological trends linked to high-pressure systems and distinct air-sea-land interactions.
Warmer, drier conditions over eastern Siberia enhance fire-related emissions (0.7 ± 0.1 TgCH4 year−2), and wetter conditions over western Siberia promote wetland-related emissions (0.4 ± 0.1 TgCH4 year−2).
Weakly nonlinear relationships between temperature maxima and emissions suggest that by 2050 [???], higher Siberian emissions could offset about 20% of the global methane reduction required for climate targets [???], with eastern Siberia dominating the projected increase."
US National Academy Of Sciences Pulls Key Climate Science Chapter From Website
Good news! What took so long! Shame on the NAS to promote such ideology and indoctrination!
"... NAS pulled the climate science section, which appeared in the fourth edition of the “Reference Manual on Scientific Evidence,” while it reviews the process used to develop the guidance, following scrutiny over the chapter’s contents and the involvement of a lawyer connected to climate litigation against energy companies.
The chapter, which critics liken to “left-wing plaintiff propaganda,” claims climate attribution — “climate change” linked to human activity and specific companies — is established science. ...
The manual is produced by the National Academies in partnership with the Federal Judicial Center (FJC), and assists federal judges in evaluating scientific and technical evidence that arises in litigation.
Although the exact amount of judges who use the reference manuals isn’t known , the fourth edition is publicly available online. Reuters reported since 1994 that the reference guide has been cited by over 1,300 judges. ...
President Donald Trump had also criticized the climate science section before its removal, arguing that the material contained faulty information and should not be supported by taxpayers. ..."
What a joke! NAS logo (source)
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